Chart of the week: Facebook nation is more populous than China

Facebook has just released its quarterly earnings, beating analyst's predictions. While revenue was up, standing at $9.32 billion for Q2, the number of users now tops 2 billion.

As our infographic by Statista shows, there are more monthly active users (MAU) on Facebook than there are people living in the world's most populous nation, China. Twitter for it's part can claim to have slightly more users than the United States has inhabitants. Overall, almost half of the world's population is online.

This week's episode of Media Voices features newspaper analyst Liz Gerard on UK papers' front-page obsession with immigration and Stop Funding Hate founder Richard Wilson explaining the goals of the campaign. In the news round-up, Chris and Peter discuss the news that current affairs magazines have seen a year-on-year rise in print circulation.

Larry Sommers, vice president of Meredith Content Licensing, and Mike Lovell, who manages the international brand licensing business, explain how they revolutionised Meredith’s proposition – and how they’re equipping it for the future…

On August 14, 2017, the management board of Media Group Medweth will be expanded to include a four-member body (alongside Christian Medweth, Bozidar Luzanin and Marie-Christine Dreyfus), as well as expanding the management of OZ-Verlag. Frances Evans, formerly international marketing and innovation at Burda International, joins as a member of Medweth's management board, and as CEO of OZ-Verlag at the Rheinfelden site, together with co-'managing director Sandra Linsin.

For the last fifteen or so years Azeem Azhar has been a key commentator on the intersection of technology and online media. He has worked with both mainstream media companies like Reuters, The Guardian and the BBC alongside social startups like Peerindex and Mink Media. In many different capacities and different guises Azeem has been asked to predict the future, and many people are eager to hear what he has to say.